The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-04-22

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consent. Many Of the mightiest and bes
spirits have gone through this process
Thousands and tens OF thousands o
Gods children have been cremated-
r. r. Bliss and wife, the evangelistis
singers, cremated by accident at Ashta
bula bridge; John Rodgers, creieated BY
persecution; Latimer aud Ridley, cfemAt
ed 1t Oxford: Potninus and Blindina, {
slave. and Alexander, a physician. and
their comrades, cremated at the order o.
Marcus Aurelius-at least one hundred
thousand OF Christ's disciples cremated-
AID there can be no doubt about the 10
surrection Of their bodies.
Ii the world lasts as much longer - Il
has already been built there perhaps
may be no room for the large acreage sci
apart for the resting places, but that
time has not como. Plenty Of room yet
and the race need not pass that bridge OF
hre until 1t comes to it. The most of vi
prefer the old way. But whether out OF
natural disinteRration or cremation, We
shall get that luminous. buoyant, glad
some, trsnscendent, magnificent, mex.
plicahle structure called the resurrection
body, you will have it, will have it. !
say to you to-day, As Paul said to Agrip-
pa:
Why should it be thought . thing incredible
with you that God should raise the dead
The far-up cloud, higher than the hawk
hies, higher than the eagle flies, what 10 II
made OF! Drops OF water from the Hud-
son, other drops from the East River, other
drops from stagnant pool out ON Newark
hats-up yoRder there, and embodied in q
cloud, and the sun kindles 1t. II God can
make such q lustrous cloud Of water
drops, many Of them soiled and impure.
and fetched from miles away, can he not
transport the fragments Of the human
body from the earth. and out of them build
. radiant bodya Can not God. who owns
all the material out of which bones and
muscle and flesh are made, set them up
sgain if thew have TALENT II q manu- fact.
urer Of telescopes drop telescope on the
floor, and it breaks, can he not mend
1t again SO you can see through
ita And il God drops tbs human
eye into the dust, the eye which
he originally fashioncd. can bs not
restore it! Aye, il the manufacturer Of
the telescope, BY a change IL the glass and
change Of focus, can make better glass
than that which was originally con-
structed, and actually improve it, do you
not think the fashioner Of the human eye
may improve its sight and multiply the
natural eye by the thousand fold addition
al force Of the resurrection eyel
Why should it be thought thing Incredible
with you that God should raise the dead.
Things all around US suggest it, Out Of
what grew all these flowers, Out Of the
mold and the earth. RssurrecteI! R.sur.
rected! The radiant butterfly, where did
it come from! The loathsome cater pillar.
That albatross that smtes the tempest
with Its wing, where dbl it come from! A
senseless she'll
Near Bergerac, France, in Celtic tomb
under a block. were found flower seed
that had been buried two thousand years.
The explorer took the flower seed and
planted it, and it came up; it bloomed in
bluebell and heliotrope. Two thousand
years ago buried, yet resurrectedl
A traveller says he found in q mummy
pit in Egypt garden peas that had been
buried there three thousand years ago
He brought them out, and on the Ath Of
June, 1874, he planted them. and In thirty
days they sprang up. Buried three thou
sand years. yet resurrected
Why should it be thought thing incredible
with you that God should raise the dead?
Where did all this silk come from-the
silk that adorns YOUR persons and your
homes! In the hollow Of q stan Greek
brought from China to Europe
the progenitors Of those worms that now
supply the silk markets OF many nations
The pageantry of hammered host and the
luxurious articles Of commercial empo-
rum blazing out from the SILK worms.
And who shall be surprised If out of tn is
Insignificant earthly body, this insiguifi-
cant earthly life, our bodies unfold into
something worthy of the coming eterni-
ties.
Put silver into diluted nitre and it dis.
solves. Is the silver gone fore~erl No
Put in some pieces of copper and the silver
reappears. II one force dissolves, another
force organizes.
Why should it be thought thing Incredible
With you that God should raise the dead.
The insects flew and the worms crawled
last autumn feebler and feebler, and then
stopped. They have taken no food they
want none. They lay dormant aud in
but soon the south wind will
blow the resurrection trumpet, and the
air and the earth wiz. be full of them Do
you not think that Goi can do Is much
for our bodies as he dees for the wasps
and the spiders and tie snailsa This
at 4:O o'clock there was a resur-
rection- Out Of the night the day. In
few weeks there will be . resurrection
in all our gardens. Why not some dsy
, resurrection amid all the gravesl
Ever and anon there are instances Of
men and women entrauced. A trance Is
Heath followed by resurrection after Q
Hnf -
power and action. Rev. Will
am Tennent, q great evangelist
If the last generation, Of whom
DR.. Archibald Alexander, Q man far from
being sentimental, wrote in most eulo-
CYSTIC terms-Rev. William Tennet seemed
70 die. His spirit departed People came
n day after day and said: HE is dead;
ne is dead" But the soul that Ned re-
urned, and William Tennst lived to write
tut the experiences Of what he had seen
while his soul had goue. It may be found
'ome time that what is called suspended
or comatose state is brief death,
giving the soul an excursion into the next
world, from which it comes back, Q fur
ough Of . few hours granted from the
conflict Of life to which it must return.
Do not this waking up Of men from
rance, and this waking up Of insects
rom winter lifelessuess, and this waking
,p Of grains buried three thousand years
go, mako It easier for YOU to belle ve that
'our body and mind after the vacation Of
he grave shall rouse and rally, though
here b three thousand years between
'ur last breath and the sounding Of the
Irohangelic reveillel
Psychologists tell US that while the most
Il our bodies are built with such wonder.
al economy that we can snare nothing.
md the loss Of . finger Is . hin
lerment and the injury Of . toe
oint makes us lame, still that We have
wo or three useless physical apps
ati, and NO anatomist or physiological has
ver been able to tell what thew are mood